Shoe-buckle.



F. PITSGH.

SHOE BUCKLE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1913.

1,1 19,722. Patented Dec. 1, 1914 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND PITSCH, OF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO A. FRIES, HARDWARE- WORKS, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

SHOE-BUCKLE.

Application filed July 16, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND PrrsoH, working manager, a citizen of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, residing at Elisabeth Ufer 50, in Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia and State of Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoe- Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to shoe buckles and has for its object to provide a buckle, by which the buttoning or lacing of the shoe is rendered unnecessary and the shoe can be worn without pinching the foot of the wearer.

A further object consists in applying means, which prevent a spontaneous releasing of the buckle, when locked.

The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawing, in which is Figure 1 a perspective view of a shoe provided with the new buckle, Fig. 2 a bottom plan view of the buckle and Fig. 3 a detail of the same buckle in a larger scale.

The improved buckle consists of a middlepiece a and two side-shanks b, 6 which are attached to the piece a by a hinging connection, the shanks having on the corners of their inside edges lugs, looking into caps 0, 0 formed on the middle-piece. The 0pposite connecting edges d of this piece are provided with cuttings, such forming springs e, 6 while the inside corresponding edges of the shanks have projections f bent downwardly, which in the locked position of the buckle are engaged by the said springs and pressing in this manner the side-shanks against the middle-piece prevent the spontaneous releasing of the locking. The outer edges of the shanks are attached to the shoe Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

Serial No. 779,302.

g by yielding means as elastics h, 7L1. The middle piece a may be cut from a plate or bent from a wire, in which case it is provided with an ornamental plate for covering the elastics h, h, when the buckle is locked.

As shown in Figs. 2 and 3 the lugs on the corners of the side shanks acting as hinge tenons are provided with spiral springs 2'. i Hereby the locking of the buckle is obtained at any time automatically, as the spiral springs force the shanks Z), to take the inward position. In opening the buckle the middle-piece a will be seized by the fingers of the wearer and drawn up, whereupon the side-shanks will be turned on their hinges and released from the engagement with the springs 6, 6 It will also be understood, that the yielding connections h, h of the buckle with the shoe 9 will prevent the pinching the foot of the wearer.

Having thus fully shown and described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a shoe-buckle the combination of a middle piece, two side shanks attached on their inner edges to the middle piece by a hinging connection and on their outer edges to the shoe by a yielding connection, the connecting edges of the middle piece having cuttings forming springs and the corresponding edges of the shanks projections bent downwardly and spiral springs arranged on the hinge-tenons for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FERDINAND PITSCH. \Vitnesses:

WOLDEMAR HAUPT, HENRY HASPER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

